Day 8: Monday, February 5 | The Digital Object
What is a digital object? A reproduction? An imitation? What’s the distinction between digitized and born-digital objects?
Discussion co-leaders: Elliot and Lea, slides from their presentation
Readings:
- Fiona Cameron, “Beyond the Cult of the Replicant: Museums and Historical Digital Objects— Traditional Concerns, New Discourses,” in Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse, edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007), 49-75.
References from class:
- Nicole Meehan (2022), “Digital Museum Objects and Memory: Postdigital Materiality, Aura and Value.” Curator, 65: 417-434. https://doi.org/10.1111/cura.12361
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Day 9: Wednesday, February 7 | What is a museum?
Discussion Co-leaders: Kai and Heather, slides from their presentation
In class:
Readings:
- International Council of Museums Definition, 2022 and pushback
- Peter Walsh, “Rise and Fall of the Post-Photographic Museum: Technology and the Transformation of Art,” Theorizing Digital Heritage: A Critical Discourse, edited by Fiona Cameron and Sarah Kenderdine, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007), 49-75.
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Day 10: Friday, February 9 | Visual Rhetoric + WordPress
Readings:
- Franco Chimero, “What Screens Want,” 2013.
Mel Stanfill, “The interface as discourse: The production of norms through web design,” Volume 17, Issue 7, 2014.Torsten Nilsson, “The Interface of a Museum: Text, Context, and Hypertext in a Performance Setting,” Archives and Museum Informatics 1997.
In class:
Further Resources:
- Lev Manovich, “Information as an Aesthetic Event,” 2007.
Featured image: From “The Art of Google Books,” by Krissy Wilson. Employee’s hand covers text. From p. 20-21 of Auction Catalogue, pt. 2 by C.F. Libbie & Co (1750).Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts). Accessed January 3, 2021.
